Hi, The fix for bug 6491856 "For JTextArea the standard text terminal size 80x24 seems to be the reasonable default." doesn't seem to work correctly. When I tested it in JDK7-ea-b76 the preferred size returned from the example code is [width=0,height=1376] while I would expect [width=880,height=384] (the result of new JTextArea(24, 80).getPreferredScrollableViewportSize() on my system).
Perhaps the default [width=400,height=400] for the preferred scrollable viewport size when preferred size is null should be used though. The 880 width seems a bit too wide to me - for reference 6u18 gives currently [width=100,height=16] for JTextArea with the sample text. Although I ran into this issue while using a JTextArea without scroll pane (Jide's MultiLineLabel which is a JTextArea with a label look), the zero width/very big height is also used for the preferred scrollable viewport size when you put the text area in a JScrollPane. Thanks, Walter Laan. http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6491856
